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Towards an operational alignment approach for organizations

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An effective information system improves the profitability of organizations. However, it appears that there is a need for an alignment approach that allows the continued operation of information system. In our work, we focus particularly on the operational alignment. Moreover, we deal with the topic of alignment by analyzing three levels: business requirement, business process, and software system. In this paper, we present an overview of this topic's concepts. Then, we analyze approaches related to our work by defining a set of criteria. Finally, we present the main idea of our proposed approach.

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    ICIME 2017: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Management and Engineering
    October 2017
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    ISBN:9781450353373
    DOI:10.1145/3149572
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    1. Alignment Approach
    2. Business Process
    3. Business Requirement
    4. Business-IT Alignment
    5. Information System
    6. Organization
    7. Software System

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